4 October, 2004

Maximum Mohawk

It takes him half an hour to do and he has to sleep half way
down the bed at night. But for Lance Downing it's a small price to pay for
individuality. The 16-year-old Hagley Community College student proudly calls
his 30cm green and pink mohican hairstyle "radical".

Vintage Knitting Patterns

If you need vintage knitting patterns,
Yesterknits is the place for
you.

Yesterknits is based in Scotland and has the largest
collection of vintage knitting patterns in the world - over 80,000 individual
designs - plus around 10,000 crochet patterns. Most of the patterns were
published in the UK between 1880 and yesterday.

Combover Patented

A method of
styling hair to cover partial baldness using only the hair on a person's head.
The hair styling requires dividing a person's hair into three sections and
carefully folding one section over another.

(Thanks Harry Wahl)

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Speed Test

Firefox Security Update

October 1, 2004.
The Mozilla Foundation releases an important security update for Firefox. All
users should upgrade to the latest version of the Firefox Preview Release. A
patch is available for current Preview Release users.

Q. How does this security vulnerability expose the user?

A. A malicious hacker who could trick a user into saving
a file could delete files from a user's download directory.

It took less than a minute.

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Make A Child Smile

Founded in May of 1998, by Alexandra Davila, the Make A Child
Smile Organization, also known as MACS, has been a source of support to children
with chronic or life-threatening illnesses and their families. Emotional support
is provided by creating the opportunity for people to visit the MACS website and
learn about the children and their illnesses.

Each month, new children are featured. A picture and biography
describing the child and information about their family is published on the
site. Hundreds of 'net surfers, schools, service organizations, girls/boys
scouts and church groups use the MACS site as a philanthropic project where they
can send cards, letters and small gifts to the featured children and their
siblings through postal mail.

(Thanks Sherry)

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Musical Jewelry

Instruments
are perfect miniature replicas of the originals (copyrights from the
manufacturers of the real instruments). One inch to 2 1/2" in length. Pewter
cast with nickel/silver or 24k gold electroplate. You can almost play them!
Detail cannot be faulted, even by professionals. Most are tack-pins, some are
clasp pins, some are charms made from the same mold or key chains.

There
are lots to choose from Shown
here is a little Mesa Boogie amp.

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Puns

PunLiners - the only humor site on
the internet that features original puns by Daniel Riehs. Here are a few of the
originals:

So you can drive a car, but what do you have to chauffeur it?

I need to purchase a barrel of translucent petroleum. That garbage I
bought earlier was just too OPEC.

How could the teacher reject my answer of 40 degrees? It was such a cute
angle.

I saw a ridiculous show on MTV where the host tried to catch a fish with
his bare hands. Next time, I'll watch The Reel World.

The crafty cement salesman managed to scam several residents of the Greek
island. I can't believe that his concrete scheme worked.

Posted on 4 October, 2004

The Radio

A clickable old-time radio image, with links to a wide variety of webcasts
(including Whole Wheat Radio): The Radio.

Hello Kitty Debit Card

"Freedom! You can use the Hello Kitty Debit MasterCard to shop
'til you drop," the card's Web site enthuses.

The prospective audience? The young women who grew up with the
30-year-old icon -- as well as much younger girls. "We think our target age
group will be from 10 to 14, although it could certainly go younger," said Bruce
Giuliano, senior vice president of licensing for Sanrio Inc., which owns the
brand.

Blogs On Jeopardy

Friday night was the final
round of Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions. I was surprised to see that one of
the categories for Double Jeopardy was "Blogs." Here are screen caps of each of
the "answers"...read it, think of the correct question ("Who is...", etc.) and
then click to see if you are correct. They're pretty easy if you know what a
blog is, and not too hard even if you don't.

The No CARB Diet

Son Of Spam

We receive dozens of variations of the ubiquitous
ubiquitous Nigerian Scam in our inbox every day. Usually we just file them away,
but once a while one comes along remarkable for its audacity or its humor. The
one quoted below is an example of the latter category, although the humor is
intentional - it's a parody which has been around since early 2004 and neatly
incorporates a plethora of common spam pitches into its text.

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Christian Tattoos

The Christian Tattoo Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt
ministry to tattoo artists and enthusiasts. The main goal of the CTA is to share
the Gospel with tattoo artists and enthusiasts. This is achieved by attending
local and national tattoo conventions, developing relationships which provide
avenues for personal witnessing, sharing our faith through the internet, printed
page and conducting bible studies and worship services.

There's also an
extensive gallery of Christian tattoos.

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Quotations

You'll find many sources for quotations online, but this seems to be one of
the better sites: ThinkExist.

ThinkExist is a Quotation Search Engine and Directory with over
90,000 quotations by over 9,000 authors in the English language. These
quotations have been compiled thanks to the contributions of thousands of
ThinkExist users in the past 5 years.

Posted on 4 October, 2004

Cartoon Encyclopedia

Urinal Ads

Richard Deutsch, an electrical engineer and former
chiropractor, has come up with an invention that looks like a hockey puck with
mesh wings, is sensitive to changes in light and has a tendency to go off with
even the slightest bit of movement, which can prompt red flashing lights,
crunchy guitar chords and a commercial announcement.

The most notable detail, however, is its intended placement:
the urinals of public restrooms.

What does the pioneer of restroom advertising think of this idea?

"I can't see someone wanting their brand name urinated on,"
said Tony Jacobson, a pioneer of restroom advertising.